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Vacancy Announcement- Program Associate

Vacancy Announcement- Program Associate

Position: Program Associate, King’s Incubator

Duration: 1 year ( with the possibility of extension)

Required Number: One

Reports To: Incubator Head

Salary and Benefits: Negotiable

 

About King’s Incubator: King’s Incubator is the center of innovation and entrepreneurial development at King’s College. It facilitates the growth of Social Entrepreneurship and Commercial Entrepreneurship through applied workshop, training, providing access to seed capital, mentoring and networking. The center also runs its incubation programs to transform the ideas into concrete business ventures and aspires to guide the start-ups or existing organizations towards more challenging and profitable goals. Currently,

PopCorn Series 9: Effective Business Networking held at September 18

PopCorn Series 9: Effective Business Networking held at September 18

The eight packet of the PopCorn Series was held on September 18, 2020 in the title “Effective Business Networking”. The session was facilitated by Thomas Wavering, Instructor of Entrepreneurship & Economic Development and Executive Director, Tom Love Innovation Hub with the objective of discussing ideas on effective ways of networking. 

 

In a session for around 2 hours, Thomas discussed ways of Networking, tips to Networking and use of social media in Networking. For the last 30 minutes he dealt with the queries of the participants and then the program wrapped up.

 

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PopCorn Series 9: Basic Tax Compliance for New Entrepreneurs

PopCorn Series 9: Basic Tax Compliance for New Entrepreneurs

The ninth packet of the PopCorn Series is scheduled for October 9, 2020 titled “Basic Tax Compliance for New Entrepreneurs”. The objective of the session is to make participants aware about tax provisions and book-keeping techniques. The session aims to explore the following:

Basic Tax Provisions Tax Compliances Bookkeeping Techniques as per Regulations Tax Reliefs due to COVID and recent Budget Highlights

 

The session will be facilitated by Avash Ghimire, Director, Ultimate Business Advisors

 

Bio of the Facilitator

Avash Ghimire is

2nd Youth Entrepreneur Summit 2020 Being Organized

2nd Youth Entrepreneur Summit 2020 Being Organized

The 2nd Youth Entrepreneur Summit Chitwan is being organized from September 18-19, 2020 with an aim at promoting entrepreneurship amongst the new startups and aspiring entrepreneurs in Chitwan. There will be 6 panel speakers and 2 keynote speaker in the event with the participation of youths across Nepal. 

King’s Incubator and King’s College  has collaborated with Timro Kawadiwala ( Organizer) as an “Education Partner” in the event

What is Youth Entrepreneur Summit Chitwan?

Youth Entrepreneur Summit Chitwan is an annual conference aimed at promoting entrepreneurship amongst the new startups and aspiring entrepreneurs in Chitwan. The program was started in 2018

PopCorn Series 8: Effective Business Networking

PopCorn Series 8: Effective Business Networking

The seventh bucket of the PopCorn Series is scheduled for September 18, 2020 titled “Effective Business Networking”. The objective of the session is to discuss ideas on effective ways of networking. The session aims to explore the following:

Discovery vs Delivery Networking Networking through Interaction Networking through Social Media

 

The session will be facilitated by Thomas Wavering, Instructor of Entrepreneurship & Economic Development and Executive Director, Tom Love Innovation Hub

 

Bio of the Facilitator

Tom Wavering is an accomplished researcher, educator and executive, leading

PopCorn Series 7: Legal Aspects and Compliances to Run a Business

PopCorn Series 7: Legal Aspects and Compliances to Run a Business

The seventh packet of the PopCorn Series is scheduled for September 4, 2020 titled “Legal Aspects and Compliances to Run a Business”. The objective of the session is to identify and understand the different legal registration processes for a company. The session aims to explore the following

Different ways and possibilities of registering a company 2.procedure for incorporating a company  Setting the Capital of a company Choosing to register in PAN or VAT Timely updating the company at various government offices. 

The session will be facilitated by Adv. Jasmin

Social Media Analysis Report

Entrepreneurs Group Members Number post Approved Likes Comment Post Updated Member Since Most Active Least Active Number of Post made Entrepreneurs for Nepal 10,696  10+ posts a day A 3 Non 9th May at 13: 29 7th April 7 to 12:30 am 2 to 3 pm 3 Times  Entrepreneurs Of NepaL 658 7+ posts a week A – Pending 19th April 12th April 12: 32 P.m 9 to 10 pm 5 times Nepal Entrepreneurs of Network(NEN) 12  8 or 9 posts a week A 1 Interested 5th April May 15th 2 tiems StartUp Nepal 464 5 to 6 posts a month A 5 Interested 10th May 7th may 3 times Women Entrepreneurs for Nepal 289 2 post a week A Pending 7th May 7th April 3 times Entrepreneurs of Nepal 1,038 4 to 5 posts a month A 1 Non 11th May 7th April 2 times Tech Entrepreneure of Nepal 1,000 5+ posts a week A Non 10th May 7th April 3 times Himalayan

Report of YSBC, 2019

Boot Camps

Participants were selected through boot camps organized by Yunus Social Business

Centre Nepal, King’s College in 12 different cities across seven provinces: Nepalgunj,

Dhangadi, Surkhet, Birgunj, Chitwan, Dang, Dharan, Biratnagar, Pokhara, Butwal,

Janakpur, and Kathmandu. Altogether, 537 youth participated in the boot camps

and received training about ‘Solving Community Problems through Design Thinking

Approach’.

While there was a well-distributed participation from each of the 12 cities,

the total participation of males and females in the boot camps was also comparable, i.e.

58.65% and 41.34% respectively.

Pre-final Rounds

Out of 154 applications from all over Nepal comprising of diverse participants in terms

of geographical region, age, gender and educational background, 80

Winner Dulwa

Winner Dulwa

Winner Dulwa

            Dulwa translated as traveler in English, is a digital travelogue about Nepal based on User Generated Content. They want to empower the backpackers/low-budget travelers to earn/save cash through their travel by booking packages from various travel agencies through us and submitting their work (pictures, videos, articles) after they return from travel.

Claiming unexplored tourist destination of Nepal as their main area of impact Dulwa focused their SDG’s under

Good Health and Well Being Decent Work and Economic Growth Industry, Innovation Sustainable Cities Partnerships for the Goals;

for providing platform to travel photographers and writer’s community of Nepal

Result of Second Selection Round of 4th National Social Business Challenge Team 2019 and Youth Co: Lab Nepal 3.0

The second selection meeting of 4th National Social Business Challenge Team 2019 and Youth Co: Lab Nepal 3.0 has selected the following Social Business ideas for the third round of the challenge. The selected team will be assigned to a mentor. The candidates are requested to communicate with their mentor to refine their Business Plan. For the final round, the applicants are required to submit a  Business plan by August 18, 2019 at 12:00 Noon Strictly ( No extension given) at nsbc@kingscollege.edu.np . All the selected team has been sent email for their selection